Welcome!
I start this blog with all the best interests at heart. I hope to be able to take you along the journey as we progress to the end of our MA show in mid-July. However, in the following few weeks I suspect my workload will get mighty big! Also, I should mention I have three children from aged 4 to 15! Here goes anyway, if you don’t hear anything from me for a short while then you know the workload has increased!
From the start of the MA Contemporary Art Practice programme I was challenged and motivated to further develop as an arts practitioner and researcher. The critical dialogue through the tutorials, seminars, artists talks, group critiques, tutor feedback and range of modules, all enabled me to be more questioning, and to delve deeper into my practice and I have grown immensely as an artist since I joined the programme. I have received increasing numbers of invites to exhibit my work and I have contributed papers to two national conferences, in which I made great contacts to establish arts/science collaborations for future work. Such opportunities were made possible by the relevant research methodologies and approaches introduced on the programme and the two-year structure was essential in enabling that development and growth. I will be leaving the MA well prepared for independent research within a much more confident, critically aware and engaged studio practice.
I look forward to sharing at least my thoughts and images of the work and hopefully some of you will be able to attend the show in July at Plymouth University?
